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Empty studio sets: BBC backgrounds for your video calls
- 52-6F-62 6y agoOhh. I was hoping for Mr Bean's apartment or the office from IT Crowd. No dice. There are some classics in there, though
- CornishPasty 6y agoMr Bean was ITV, and The IT Crowd was Channel 4. Hopefully they'll both follow suit!
- 52-6F-62 6y agoDoh. I guess I get them mixed up over here because a lot of British content ends up on both the CBC Gem app and Netflix which has a muddling of all of them. Agreed!
- splatzone 6y agoHere's the IT Crowd office: https://www.channel4.com/microsites/I/it-crowd/wallpapers/4840x1080.jpg https://www.channel4.com/microsites/I/it-crowd/wallpapers/48... https://www.channel4.com/microsites/I/it-crowd/wallpapers/2048x1280.jpg https://www.channel4.com/microsites/I/it-crowd/wallpapers/20...
- 52-6F-62 6y agoNICE! Thanks!
- cachestash 6y agoHow would you actually use these, save getting a green screen fitted?
- simonklitj 6y agoZoom and other such software allows you to swap the background out during video calls. Don’t know the tech behind it, but I do believe someone posted about it a couple of weeks ago on HN.
- ghaff 6y agoA green screen background still works better but, at least in the case of my office setup, Zoom works pretty well with just my regular background.
- briffle 6y agoI have never found that setting. I wonder if its not included in their linux version, or perhaps, like Teams, it requires a newer CPU than what I have, so its not shown.
- bj0 6y agoI dual boot windows/linux and the linux client does not have the virtual background options. I'm using an i7-9700k so it's not a lack of cpu power. edit: Maybe there's a newer version that supports green screen? The options simply don't exist in my version.
- CDSlice 6y agoOn Macs you have to have at least a quadcore CPU or it doesn't show the option, Zoom may do the same thing on Linux.
- tyrust 6y agoThe prerequisites for all OSes are documented here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-Background https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-... >Linux: >· Zoom Desktop Client for Linux, version 2.0.91373.0502 or higher >· Dual Core 2Ghz or Higher (i5/i7 or AMD equivalent) processor >· A physical green screen
- waste_monk 6y ago
- pkamb 6y agoSadly no Apollo House from Peep Show.
- stan_rogers 6y agoYou want people to think you're in Croydon?
- mhh__ 6y agoPeep show was channel 4 right?
- asveikau 6y agoTwo sets from Fawlty Towers but neither of them is the lobby.
- marzell 6y agoWatched that show not so long ago, for the first time really. I guess I had fawlty expectations, I thought it might have more good jokes and less racism.
- asveikau 6y agoIt's been a long time since I saw it last, but Fawlty's racism is meant to be backwards even for 1970s standards, so you're meant to laugh at him for idiotic prejudices that often backfire on him. I guess a similar American example of that time period would be Archie Bunker. Fawlty is a little bit less overtly boorish than him. I guess there are a lot of cheap jokes at Miguel's expense and they don't really fit with what I've seen of Spanish culture. But also Spain was under Franco in that time so a pretty different place too.
- marzell 6y agoYes, I do get all that, and that it is meant to be in jest and actually making fun of Fawlty. I also can't fully appreciate the context... for instance in the UK I've heard it was common in the 50s and 60s for the N word and it's variants to be used but weren't meant to be derogatory (still having a hard time with that one). However, in Fawlty Towers there was a lot of use of several racial epithets, and Miguel's character seemed overtly racist in portraying a clumsy/clueless Hispanic much in the same way as Blacks being portrayed as overly cheerful willing servants in other shows from the past.
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- hanoz 6y agoAs opposed to the usual on-BBC background of an impressively scholarly bookshelf, with a copy of your own book casually prominent.
- anticensor 6y agoI failed to find the BBC World News Studio backdrop, which might be very useful.
- tootie 6y agoI can't believe they have nothing from The Office. I may grab an Absolutely Fabulous though.
- hadrien01 6y agoNo BBC News backgrounds :(
- sandworm101 6y agoNo IT Crowd, no Blackadder, No Father Ted, and none of the modern reboots (Perrin, Porridge etc).
- lkramer 6y agoIT crowd and Father Ted were Channel 4, so unlikely to be included in this collection.
- sandworm101 6y agoRight. Totally forgot. They are just filed under "Britcom" in my system.
- canada_dry 6y agoWell, there's this... https://imgur.com/t/zoom/Itbzkby https://imgur.com/t/zoom/Itbzkby
- jdlyga 6y agoWait till people start discovering video background for Zoom. I made some from youtube videos of trees blowing in the wind, and it's really nice.
- kevinwang 6y agoWhat's the license for these?
- dangerboysteve 6y agoWhere are the "on the Buses" sets? Come on BBC.
- mark-r 6y agoMy first thought when I saw the headline was the inside of the Tardis. I'm happy that it's not only available, but featured prominently in the announcement.
- shermanmccoy 6y agoI was hoping for the pub from Shameless.